The Art Student's Workbook - Student Edition

This Student Edition workbook was created by a 20+ year certified veteran teacher and curriculum writer for classes in drawing, painting & sculpture designed for grades 6 through 12. Lessons are easily adjusted to accommodate special needs students & material availability in many environments from the school classroom to a fine arts camp program. It includes more than 2 year's worth of lesson ideas, project samples, vocabulary, worksheets, sample tests, research paper samples, grading rubrics, sketch and note taking pages, and short creative 5 minute writing assignments. This book is also a helpful aid in fulfilling US State & Federal accommodation requirements (504, IEP) by providing special needs students additional documented & written material that may be taken home. Every lesson is designed to be personal & expressive fine art. There are NO "crafty" projects or "cookie-cutter" lessons where everyone has the same outcome. This book stresses a "divergent thinking processes" approach and creative problem solving, with an art therapy undertone. Most lesson suggestions may be done in different media to work within tight budgets. Anecdotal evidence from the author's guidance department indicates that students who take his course with this workbook are 50% LESS likely to fail standardized testing. These are real numbers that can grab the attention of your administration & Board of Education. These lessons combine information from core curriculum and merge it with fine art. Concepts of math, science, history, language, & writing converge in a well-orchestrated, rigorous, and relevant program. Students not only come to understand the concepts but use them and manipulate them for deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels of thinking. This workbook is divided by multicurricula units so that this concrete connection to academic "core courses" is more easily seen. Does this mean that an art class loses its creative edge by incorporating other subjects? No, this integration enhances it. Students have a deeper understanding of the work, they come to see the relevance, and are more likely to "buy into" the concept. When students ask, "Why do we have to know this stuff," the answer becomes relevant through the daily approach, process, and end products. ALL projects herein are designed to have successful divergent results, incorporate creative problem solving, & bring relevant connections to students' lives. This book is built for student success on many levels from gifted to challenged. This in turn is helpful in fulfilling mandated accommodations so that no child is left behind.